4/2/2018 0 Comments Expand Your Story Skills Writing Prompt: What Happened Yesterday? #5for5BrainDump
What happened yesterday?
There are days when in the living of them I am so drained I feel my energy seeping into my feet, everything is heavy. My hands are heavy, my feet feel cast in concrete and usually that is when the things I don’t want to do rise high above the things I think would be a pleasure to do. This is probably why I didn’t last as a county bureaucrat. Even as I write this, five lousy minutes of writing, my to-do list is flapping her jaw about things I must do right away or the world may explode or something equally unenticing like cleaning the oven by force or fire. Back to yesterday. Yesterday I took trash out, repeatedly, at two homes. I fed animals and children and myself. I washed dishes. I did laundry. I honored requests. I wrote, blessed God I wrote. I wrote a poem I am proud of. I wrote a poem that scared me, that leaped from the page and seemed pretty good and people I like liked the poem so that says something to me. I felt self conscious yesterday about the poem and sometimes that makes me worry I did something wrong, that usually makes me want to hide but yesterday I didn’t hide. I fought the urge and I stayed present and I wrote. I wrote. I wrote. Yesterday I cried, just a little, and I felt sorry for myself briefly and I kept moving. Yesterday I took the trash to the curb because they keep coming early and if I don’t remember the night before, all trash hell breaks loose (or threatens to, not unlike the world explosion or the oven cleaning by force.) I keep writing. I keep writing. I smile because this feels good even if it is just gobbled gook it feels good and I know that bits and pieces of it will flow into story somewhere somehow I can feel. I am allowed to feel good even when aspects of my day feel pretty lousy. I am allowed to feel better. I am allowed to feel self-conscious and say “Hey, this was pretty cool after all! The timer goes off and I laugh, because the writing started so slowly and built as I let my fingers type aimlessly about what happened yesterday. If someone had asked me what happened ten minutes ago I would have said, “Nothing much!”
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